{"id":30298,"date":"2020-09-30T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30298"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:29:18","slug":"latherapp-rejected-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/latherapp-rejected-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"LatherApp Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinktapwork.com\/post\/630529654783082496\/pop-out-timer-and-our-frustrations-with-app-review\">Jeremy Provost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.thinktapwork.com\/post\/630529654783082496\/pop-out-timer-and-our-frustrations-with-app-review\"><p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/06\/29\/apple-watch-handwashing\/\">Apple was busy developing a hand washing timer for Apple Watch<\/a>, App Review was rejecting <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/kw\/app\/latherapp-hand-washing\/id1509810285\">LatherApp<\/a> for being a hand washing timer that was not provided by a recognized health authority. We had to check after WWDC to make sure Apple had not suddenly become a recognized health authority, but no, they simply changed their rule exactly when it benefited them.<\/p><p>In the meantime Apple forced us to remove every single possible reference to hand washing if we wanted to have LatherApp approved. They then <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thinktapwork.com\/post\/617471698181160960\/introducing-wash-stuff\">rejected us simply for using the name LatherApp<\/a>. From their perspective, &ldquo;lather&rdquo; is something that only occurs during hand washing, and even sending them a dictionary definition was not enough to get them to change their mind. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The app originally shipped, before WWDC, as Wash Stuff. Apple recently allowed it to be renamed back to LatherApp and to mention hand washing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Provost: While Apple was busy developing a hand washing timer for Apple Watch, App Review was rejecting LatherApp for being a hand washing timer that was not provided by a recognized health authority. We had to check after WWDC to make sure Apple had not suddenly become a recognized health authority, but no, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-30T20:52:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"8c6b91ea-d4a8-4fb4-9a48-7810cc1cf92d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-30T23:29:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjGuR6tSoT7SaSHgQzBz5LQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,992,1931,1918,31,1667,26,1990],"class_list":["post-30298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rejection","tag-apple-watch","tag-covid-19","tag-health","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-latherapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30309,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30298\/revisions\/30309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}